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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So your kid sits out all those years everyone else is learning how to play the game right way, and now he wants to come back in.

Grow some backbone. Your kid mad his bed. Time to lie in it.[/quote]

This attitude is prevalent in kids sports nowadays with type-A parents pushing their kids to specialize, play travel as 7 year olds. SAD.

Great athletes can and do switch sports. Case in point, my cousin played lacrosse for years then dropped it to try soccer when he was 11. He was a natural. Fast forward, he is playing Division One college soccer on a full scholarship!
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That other poster is crazy.  Even little league series folks were promoting the idea that kids should not specialize and should play more than two sports / play outside more.  They even had PSAs about it.[/quote]

NP here.  Sort of off the subject, but I have a kid who is pretty decent at baseball and have been feeling the pressure to get him into travel.  All of his close friends who love baseball are doing it and I hate feeling like he's being left behind.  He does play basketball in winter and summer, so he's by no means specializing in baseball, and I recognize I need to shake off the pressure, but...it's there.  He is not doing it and my husband definitely does not want him to do it. We have other commitments so logistically it wouldn't work. Rationally I know all this.[/quote]

How old? My DS is 10, almost, 11 and same thing. We said no to it for this year- mostly due to family schedule and also the expense. Most of his friends play both rec AND travel...so he does play with them for rec. My DS is doing rec fall ball and rec again in the Sprinf. He does do a weekly batting lesson. He is not falling behind skill wise at all (played LL all stars all summer too). I don’t think there is anything wrong with travel but I think it is OK to set limits on what the family can handle. We probably won’t do travel until 12 or  my DS ages out of little league. Thus far- some of the best players also play travel, some do not. I think he continue doing rec only for a bit, yet.[/quote]

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